INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Garrett Gomez won his first riding title in nearly seven years and trainer Doug O'Neill continued his dominance in Southern California at the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting that ended Sunday. The meet was the last under the ownership of Churchill Downs Inc., which sold the track to the Bay Meadows Land Co. earlier this month.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The versatile Cat Alert makes her first start for trainer Joe Orseno on Wednesday in a $58,000 optional claimer at Belmont Park.

The 5-year-old was a welcome addition to Orseno's barn. She has already won 6 of 15 starts, including her last two races. Cat Alert dominated in her last start, a grass race at Keeneland on April 24. After dueling for the early lead, Cat Alert drew off to 10 1/4-length win that earned a 94 Beyer Speed Figure.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The final week at Belmont Park starts Wednesday with one title settled and another very much up for grabs.

Edgar Prado will be a runaway winner among the jockeys, with a 77-52 lead over Eibar Coa entering Wednesday's races.

It's a much different story among the trainers. Bill Mott holds a 20-19 lead over Juan Rodriguez, who is filling in for the suspended Richard Dutrow Jr., and Todd Pletcher. Mike Hushion and Christophe Clement, with 17 wins each, still have a shot.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - This past weekend was one of the hottest of the summer in Chicago, and on Saturday, in winning the by two lengths, Devilment turned in the fastest 1 1/8-mile time since Arlington Park reopened in 2000. But on Monday, Devilment was not acting like an overstressed horse, a good sign for a colt who has blossomed into one of the better 3-year-olds in the Midwest right now.

"No complaints with how he came out of it," said trainer Mike Stidham. "He's bouncing. He's a happy horse."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Quick in Deed, the only four-time winner at the Woodbine meeting, should be the prohibitive favorite Wednesday in the $125,000 Deputy Minister Stakes, a seven-furlong sprint for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds.

Quick in Deed has won four in a row, including two Ontario-sired allowances, since finishing second to the talented Verne's Baby in his first start of the year.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Roger Attfield will be in Kentucky this week for a shopping expedition that will include the Fasig-Tipton sale.

Although Attfield said he fears the prices at Fasig-Tipton may be too dear, he at least has a little extra spending money after sending out Ablo and Noble Stella for lucrative victories last weekend. Ablo, partly owned by Attfield, picked up $300,000 for his win in Sunday's Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie, the second leg of Canada's Triple Crown. Noble Stella, owned by Gary Tanaka, earned $197,100 for her score here in Saturday's Dance Smartly.

VALLEJO, Calif. - Northern California-based horses have been making their presence felt across the nation, among them the undefeated Lost in the Fog and Ema Bovary, who won nine straight before being retired in February. Northern California's leading trainer, Jerry Hollendorfer, has shipped a number of runners successfully, including Adreamisborn, who won last year's Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs.

Add Desert Boom to the list.

Areek rolled to a three-length win in the three-horse $65,000 Red Cross Stakes for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.

Areek ($3) ran the six furlongs over the sloppy track in 1:09.30 with Jose Velez Jr. aboard for trainer Mark Hennig. Thermal Ablasion was second with Welcome Home the trailer.

In the $60,000 Colts Neck Handicap for New Jersey-breds, War's Prospect ($7.40) set the pace and posted a 3 1/2 length win

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Ablo, who had finished fifth in the June 26 Queen's Plate at Woodbine, rebounded in a big way here Sunday by taking the $500,000 in front-running fashion.

Autumn Snow, making his first start in a main-track stakes, pressed Ablo throughout the 1 3/16 mile Prince of Wales but came up just a neck short with Wild Desert, the winner of the 1 1/4 mile Queen's Plate, another three-quarters of a length back in third.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Always First rallied along the rail to win Sunday's $163,500 Sunset Breeders' Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park, scoring his first stakes win on the final day of the spring-summer meeting.

Ridden by Victor Espinoza, Always First ($11.60), who was last in the first quarter-mile, finished three-quarters of a length in front of Runaway Dancer and T.H. Approval, who finished in a dead-heat for second in the field of eight.